Some composers challenge posterity with a roar. Others woo it with seductive languor or graceful wit. Austrian Composer Anton Webern conjured it with a whisper. A shy, intense man who physically ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

I had the misfortune of stumbling over the woefully misguided attempt of Paul Greenberg in today's Tuscaloosa News [Jan. 4] to discredit the music and the life of the great Austrian composer Anton ...

On Thursday 15 September, BBC Radio 3 presents Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer's dramatic death. His complete works - about five and a half hours in total - will be ...

“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...

Anton Webern: "Someone once said that in Webern's music, a novel would last as long as a sigh, and there's a love story in every trill… He tried to reduce it to its essence." Seventy years ago this ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of Anton Webern, who studied under Arnold Schoenberg and became one of the best-known serialist composers. Donald Macleod tackles Webern's forbidding ...

A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped ...